Spain gave up an enormous lead towards France, however held on to earn an exciting 5-4 victory over Didier Deschamps’ aspect to succeed in the Nations League ultimate on Thursday.
Spain’s title defence goes on, organising a showpiece towards Portugal in Munich on Sunday, whereas France will face Germany within the third-place play-off.
Les Bleus began brightly, with Theo Hernandez hanging the crossbar early on with a curling off-balance shot, however Spain quickly got here to the fore.
Mikel Oyarzabal arrange two targets in three minutes halfway via the primary half. He held off his defender to put it off to Nico Williams, who emphatically fired into the roof of the online 22 minutes in, earlier than feeding Mikel Merino to select the bottom-right nook.
Dean Huijsen was then denied a maiden Spain objective simply earlier than half-time. He volleyed Martin Zubimendi’s cushioned header previous Mike Maignan, however the objective was disallowed for offside.
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